What We Lost with PHP and jQuery
by Ibrahim DialloBack in the day, building websites with PHP and jQuery was quick and simple—but now, with all the Reacts and Webpacks, it feels like overkill for small projects. In the post, Ibrahim shares how trying to update an old React app turned into a nightmare, and in the end, plain old HTML and CSS did the job better.
I really enjoyed this post and agreed with a lot of what Ibrahim said. The simpler history of the web was nice, and it's something I try to maintain with this blog. I'm running Kirby, which is PHP, but does use Vue as well. That's still pretty good by today's standards though.
As I've been learning PHP by doing a course and a few fun little projects, I've thought about building my own, super simple blog in PHP. Problem is, I really enjoy using Kirby.
One final point: I'm not sure jQuery was as great as Ibrahim makes it out to be - I can't speak for the earlier days, but when I used WordPress with jQuery, it was a bloated mess. 🤷🏼♂️